04 NOV. 2011
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The record-breaking simulated mission to Mars has ended with smiling faces after 17 months. Mars500’s six brave volunteers stepped out of their ‘spacecraft’ on 4 November and were welcomed by the waiting scientists – happy that the venture had worked even better than expected.On 8 November they met the press in media conference held at the RIA Novosti in Moscow.
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End of the Mars500 520-day isolation
The record-breaking simulated mission to Mars has ended with smiling faces after 17 months. Mars500’s six brave volunteers stepped out of their ‘spacecraft’ on 4 November and were welcomed by the waiting scientists – happy that the venture had worked even better than expected.On 8 November they met the press in media conference held at the RIA Novosti in Moscow.
Mars500 quick facts
Mars500 is an international study into interplanetary spaceflights and is conducting in 2010-11 the first full duration simulation of a manned flight to Mars.
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